Posts Tagged with ‘WW II’
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
23 Mar 2022Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has…
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Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet
08 Mar 2022World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In…
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Quick Recommendations
16 Dec 2021A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six…
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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
06 Dec 2021Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other…
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The Road – Vasily Grossman
16 Jul 2021Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral…
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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
09 Jun 2021If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace…
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944
24 Apr 2019Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war…
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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
27 Sep 2018War
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
31 Jul 2018Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice…
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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
